News out of GoDaddy is that Blake Irving to retire
(Reuters) – Website hoster GoDaddy Inc said Chief Executive Blake Irving would retire at the end of this year and named Chief Operating Officer Scott Wagner as his successor.
Irving would continue to serve on GoDaddy’s board through June 2018 and work closely with Wagner through the transition, the company said on Tuesday.
Irving, who joined GoDaddy in 2013, had overseen the company’s initial public offering in 2015 and led its acquisition of Host Europe Group for 1.69 billion euros ($1.82 billion), its biggest deal ever.
I wish Blake all the best in his retirement and hope that his new adventures in life are just as (If not more) rewarding. 😉
My Billion domain portfolio is all on GoDaddy. The new CEO better be smart and don’t make any radical changes on Godaddys prices, customer service, aftermarket, renewals, GoDaddy discount club and any of all the good stuff of GoDaddy.
My advice to the new CEO is to, just sit, relax and DONT TRY TO BE LIKE TRUMP AND RUIN ALL THE COMPANY AND THEIR VALUABLE AND LOYAL CUSTOMERS LIKE ME.
Tips:
– Don’t raise the registration prices and renewals.
– Increase the benefits of all the GoDaddy discount club members.
– Don’t you dare to change the actual GoDaddy website interphace. The website is just fine.
– Extra discount prices for the clients who have more than 1K domains registered at GoDaddy.
– Increase the minimum offer of 50K to 100K in the GoDaddy Auctions platform.
– Keep the Afternic Premium Network and don’t change Afternic too.
– And last but not least, Protect all our domains from UDRPs, legal issues from haters that don’t want to pay our 6 figures domain prices. lol 😀
Thanks,
Omar.VG
Verisign has been authorized by ICANN to raise prices, and it’s unlikely Godaddy will eat up the difference.